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The painter
- September 12, 2020
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The character Duparc, D’Urfé’s lover, is based upon a real female painter of the time but about whom not a great deal is known. What is known about her work is that she largely adopted a simple style and painted everyday life. Like D’Urfé and Gabrielle, our Duparc is a woman who is subverting the -
‘Casanova: the victim of women’
- August 17, 2019
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The commonly held belief that Casanova was a callous predator upon women has always been far from the truth and in this article Judith Summers aims to counter that misconception – here. Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely -
Casanova’s women
- November 17, 2018
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Apart from obscuring so much of what is interesting about him, Casanova’s historical reputation as a womaniser has, ironically, also obscured the nature of his relationship with women. The great libertine was, in fact, in some ways very atypical when it came to women. The libertine creed regarded the pursuit of sexual pleasure as
